To:L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written July 30, 1912Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48.

      Sent from Cracow to Paris.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Firstof all hearty greetings to all friends, thanks for the telegram
and heaps of best wishes! (Never mind the blot.) Salut, salut à
vous.. Ah, I’d give a lot to hear Montégus now.

ButI’ve gone off the “serious” key.

Andthere’s “business” to discuss.

(1)Iam enclosing our reply to the German
			      Vorstand.[1]Show it to a narrow circle+the Committee of the Organisations Abroad and
return.

(2)Aletter from Zaksfor you. Read it,go into it,
reply andreturn....

Allthe best,Yours,Lenin

Morozovis talking
			    nonsense....[2]A young man without allegiances, at loose ends.

Ryazanovin Vienna snaps and sulks—found himself looking foolish
after Plekhanov’s article inPravda. (I wrote a long,
heart-melting letter toKiselyov. I don’t think anything will come
of it.)

Lunacharskywrites inKievskaya
Mysl[3]about “scientific mysticism”. Get hold of it and give
him a public fatherly trouncing.

Whydon’t you write somethingfor
Prosveshcheniye?[4]

[1]Reply“To the Executive Committee of the German Social-Democratic
Party” (see present edition, Vol. 18, p. 204).—Ed.

[2]Manuscriptpartly damaged. Here several words are
illegible.—Ed.

[3]KievskayaMysl(Kiev Thought)—a bourgeois-democratic daily
published from 1906 to 1918.

[4]Prosveshcheniye(Enlightenment)—a legal theoretical
Bolshevik monthly published in St. Petersburg from December 1911 to June
1914. It was founded on Lenin’s initiative as a successor to the journalMysl, which had been closed down.  On the eve of the First World
War,Prosveshcheniyewas closed down by the tsarist
government. Publication was resumed in the autumn of 1917, but only one
double issue came out.